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To attend professional development classes to "raise your skill level" in presenting content to students and addressing their developmental needs, only to have to use techno-pop, colorful, electronic chalk-and-blackboard special effects to teach material chosen by strangers from a strange land (namely the New Jersey Department of Education).
Each year, about 11,000 teachers attend professional development courses offered by NIE.
Science teacher education can also harness the power of technology to help to overcome the problem of the lack of time for teachers to attend professional development.
While there are currently no concrete evidence of the percentages of teachers who attend professional development voluntarily, schools, MOE, and NIE are currently working out structures and ways to enable and encourage teachers to be more forthcoming.
Informants reported that travel to attend professional development was an important enabler as it allowed demarcation and prioritisation of the professional development from other workplace demands for the specific period of time.
Even the highly motivated faculty members who attend professional development workshops can have difficulty applying the lessons learned (Silverthorn et al., 2006; Ebert-May et al., 2011; Henderson et al., 2011).
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To the Editor: If William Johnson, the special education teacher rated "unsatisfactory," wants to change his grade for the better, he must snap out of his humiliation by attending professional development workshops offered by his union and the Department of Education.
Unlike pre-service teacher education that is compulsory, engagement in professional is voluntary, not considered as work duty for the teachers and there are usually no monetary rewards attached to attending professional development.
This past summer, more than 300 of our Boston school teachers from all subject areas attended professional development in project-based learning and interdisciplinary STEM curriculum.
Future investigations of teacher motivation in attending professional development may shed light on what teacher and/or workshop qualities kept them coming back.
Meanwhile, attend professional meetings and present your research there.
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